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How to Make a Grinch Cake Simple Two Recipe Cake

I am revisiting my cake decorating days with a Simple Grinch Cake for this Christmas, you only need two recipes and no special tools.

I promise with this technique even the most non artistic of you can pull this off!

Before there was such a thing called Edible Sugar Printers for cake photos, and even before most people even knew what fondant was (yes that’s how old I am) there were buttercream hand drawings.

No airbrushing, no fondant appliques and certainly no edible images!

I am going to show you how to recreate this simple and fun design for Christmas this year! (And by the way you can use this technique with any picture you like for any occasion!)

The Grinch is hands down, my all time favorite Christmas character.

But as you notice the picture I chose of him for my cake is not a mean Grinchy picture, but rather when he realized that “Maybe Christmas, he thought, doesn’t come from a store. Maybe Christmas, perhaps, means a little bit more.” and the Grinch’s small heart grew 3 sizes that day.

Just writing that line gave me chills! Call me a softy but I sure do love the story of the Grinch.

It is timeless and definitely heartwarming and we can all use a little bit of that, am I right?

So go ahead and give it a go, try your hand at this simple Christmas Grinch Cake, I promise you won’t need anything but the following 2 recipes and some parchment paper cones to decorate the whole thing (Oh yeah and some food coloring, but that’s it!)

When the kids were little, I made so many character cakes for birthdays using this method. Works like a charm. Now that cascading dots are in favor, I pre-mark them as well so they line up the way you want them too. Great clips really enjoyed it.

What a beautiful cake. I’m making this for a Christmas potluck at my work. To make sure I do it right, I started with a practice cake first. And it turned out even more delicious than I expected! One note: I couldn’t find a good picture like yours, so I took yours and expanded it… Which did work with some minor corrections to the perspective. But if you happen to have a source, that would help others I’m sure.. Anyway, thanks for the detailed instructions and inspirational cake idea! Yes, I know it’s a little odd to call a Grinch cake ‘inspirational’, but it is! 😊

I love the look of this cake! My 4 year old is requesting it for his bday in March. I was wondering if the icing is really sweet & how you get such a nice red icing without putting too much food coloring in so that it doesn’t change the taste? Thanks in advance for your help!!

Hi Thanks! AS for the icing “really sweet” is a matter of opinion. It is sweet yes, like most buttercreams will be. So it’s hard to say whether you will think it is or not. Most people LOVE this recipe, it’s easy and delicious. SO I guess I’d say try a small recipe to see if you like it. I do have more recipes for icing CLICK HERE (but this one takes color the best that leads to your second question. I use Chefmaster colors, I find it is best to color the day before decorating since the colors will darken as they sit and you can use less that way. I have never found an “off” taste from colored icing, again this could be more sensitive from person to person though

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